Mississippi State University - Reveille Yearbook (Starkville, MS)

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James Vance Bowen, Ph. B. Dean of the School of Business DEAN BOWEN has handled the reins in the department of Business at Mis- sissippi A. M. since 1917. He prepared himself for this work at the Uni- versity of Mississippi, the University of Grenoble (France), the University of Chicago and New York University, so that his ideas on his subject are distinctly cosmopolitan. He has also taken active part in the business affairs of Mississippi, being an investor in several enterprises in our home state and a director in one of the most progressive banks in this section. His lecture work abounds with in- stances of his own adventures in the fields of finance, so that he never fails to make his subject interesting to students. His famous experience with the glove factory in France will live long in the memories of our business students, and his cogent reasoning on the subject of To loan — -or not to loan will very likely be the sav- ing of many a budding fortune, provided an Aggie ' s finances ever do bud. Page 18

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James Napoleon Lipscomd, M. Sc. Dean of the School of Agriculture DEAN LIPSCOMB took his Bachelor ' s degree at Miss. A. M. College in 1910 and his Master ' s at the University of Wisconsin in 1915, and he has had considerable experience in practical agricultural work. He returned to the College as professor of Agricultural Economics in 1921 and was appointed Dean of the School of Agriculture in 1924. Dean Lipscomb is eminently fitted for his executive work at the College and has already demonstrated his ability in his first year as Dean. He is the originator of the plan whereby agricultural students are permitted to take full college work for the two semesters and are yet able during the spring planting season to return home to make a crop for them- selves. His relations with his students have always been pleasant, and the news of his appointment as Dean was received by the student body with considerable pleasure. Page 17

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Buzz M. Walker, Ph. D. Dean of the School of Engineering DR. WALKER has only recently been elected the next president of the college. This honor is only the latest of the many eminent honors this gentleman and friend to students has won in the field of education. Dr. Walker began as a student at A. M. with the first class to graduate here in 1883. He has main- tained his connection with the College through all intermediate ranks from that time until the present day. While on various leaves of absence he has pursued the abstruse machinations of the elusive variable quantities in mathematics at the Universities of Virginia, Goettingen (Germany) and Chicago. It was as part of his work at the University of Chicago that he solved a problem in mathematics that had for years been the puzzle of the foremost mathematicians of the world. For his work on this problem and for his eminence in other branches of mathematics he has gained mention in the famous Who ' s Who in America. Dr. Walker, as Dean of the School of Engineering, has been a militant advo- cate for engineering education in Mississippi, and it is due almost entirely to his zeal that the present school enjoys its excellent rating. Page iq